Theoretically, Turkey allows non-Muslims to be exempted from compulsory religious education if their religion is on record with the state. But parents have complained that some schools have refused to allow their children to be exempted.
Pastors are opposing new government regulations aimed at ‘gagging and muzzling’ the Christians in Kenya.
Earlier this month, police in Cuba had arrested two pastors while government officials supervised the demolition of their churches.
A Kazakh court in Astana has increased the severity of the sentence given a Christian convert from Islam.
Last week, vandals who wrote ‘Allah Akbar’ on a church’s walls in Tizi-Ouzou, Algerian, also stole its congregation’s cash.
Thirty-seven Christian families fleeing from the Islamic State are being relocated to the Czech Republic.
News of Saturday’s release of Iranian-American Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was hailed, especially at an event in honor of religious liberty.
Nine Christians were killed as hundreds of Muslim militants raided Christian villages in the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines, on Dec. 24.
In lieu of his medical treatments, an Iranian Christian in Rajai Shahr Prison, north-west of Tehran, Iran, was instead given five more years in prison.
A Christian woman who fled from religious persecution in Pakistan died in Thai police custody on Christmas Eve after she was denied her prescribed medications.
Thirty Evangelical Protestants from the village of Leyva Velazquez in Chiapas, Mexico, were forced to flee what remained of their homes last week, according to International Christian Concern.
A coordinated attack on three restaurants owned by Assyrian Christians in Syria killed 16 and injured dozens more during Christmas celebrations.
More than 15 Hindus surrounded a handful of Christians from the Rehoboth Prayer House as they handed out Bibles in Hyderabad, India, during Christmas week.
Hundreds of Muslim youths attacked a village church under construction in Minya, Egypt, last month.
Iran’s Islamist republic arrested a group of Christians on Christmas Day at a house church in the southern city of Shiraz.
A pastor in Uganda was hacked to death last week when he objected to having his church’s property stolen by members of a nearby mosque.
Sudan’s security officials have arrested two pastors in the Khartoum area of Sudan.
Pastor Farshid Fatih was released from prison in Iran last week after his arrest almost five years ago.
Official church closures have not stopped the growth of Christianity in Indonesia.
Seven Evangelical Christians in Chiapas, Mexico, were imprisoned on Dec. 15 after refusing to convert to Catholicism.